Oil leak from where the oil filter mounts? Jeep Cherokee 96?

Both of the first answers are correct either it is a DBL gasket, missing gasket, or loose filter.

Could also be a pinhole in the filter casing or a warped or bent filter mounting flange.

In any case it sounds like the last person who changed your oil wasn't paying attention to what they were doing. My advise to you would be that after you get this problem fixed I would never let that person or place touch your Jeep again.

You should pull off the filter ASAP. One of two things could have happened. The first is that you could have what is called a double gasket problem, wherein the rubber gasket from the old filter is still on the filter housing and the new oil filter's gasket cannot make a tight seal causing it to leak. The other scenario is that you might be missing the gasket all together.

remove oil filter look and see if theres a gasket stuck to block if so remove it and replace filter if not replace filter with right filter many times when removing old filter the gasket sticks and if no looking new oil filter wil leak wil not seal with two gaskets most case the problem or just wrong filter you can remove it without much oil lost not hard to check either

I'm guessing either the filter is not tight(1/4 turn past snug) or the old rubber gasket stayed on when the last was changed. Easy fix either way.

there's a gasket there i'm confident. inspite of the undeniable fact that I relatively have serviced lots of those automobiles and have by no potential considered one that leaked there. make a hundred% confident that the sending unit isn't leaking from the top the place the cord is linked.

yes yes an yes to all those answers but on another note remove the filter and check the thread's on the filter mounting tube could be crossthreaded and could run into some serious repairs